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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 17
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Israel scattered because she forgot God—Yet the nations that spoil her shall be destroyed.
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a message of doom ‘lifted up’ against Damascus.">burden</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/17/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 7: 8.">Damascus</a>.  Behold, Damascus is taken away from <i>being</i> a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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The cities of Aroer <i>are</i> forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make <i>them</i> afraid.
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The fortress also shall cease from <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/3a" mark="a" type="F" title="IE Syria and northern Israel (Ephraim) were allies, and both were soon to be conquered by Assyria; TG Israel, Joseph, People of; TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Ephraim</a>, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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And in that day it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
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&#182; Yet <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/6a" mark="a" type="F" title="IE Only a small remnant of Israel will be found after Assyria’s conquest; TG Israel, Remnant of.">gleaning</a> grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two <i>or</i> three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four <i>or</i> five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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At that day shall a man look to his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 14.">Maker</a>, and his eyes shall have <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/17/7b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE In their bereavement they will begin to repent.">respect</a> to the Holy One of Israel.
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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect <i>that</i> which his fingers have made, either the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 5: 14.">groves</a>, or the images.
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&#182; In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
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Because <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Israel.">thou</a> hast <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/17/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 7: 20 (17-22).">forgotten</a> the God of thy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/17/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 68: 20 (19-20).">salvation</a>, and hast not been mindful of the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/17/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Rock.">rock</a> of thy strength, therefore <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/17/10e" mark="e" type="P" title="HEB thou dost plant  . . .  ; i.e. practice idolatrous things.">shalt</a> thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: <i>but</i> the harvest <i>shall be</i> a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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&#182; Woe to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the Assyrian empire of numerous nations (v. 12-14).">the</a> multitude of many people, <i>which</i> make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, <i>that</i> make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but <i>God</i> shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 83: 13.">rolling</a> thing before the whirlwind.
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And behold at eveningtide trouble; <i>and</i> before the morning he <i>is</i> not. This <i>is</i> the portion of them that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/17/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 33: 1 (1, 4).">spoil</a> us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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